Reuters - Time Warner Inc will completely split with Time Warner Cable Inc by the end of the year, and receive a $9.25 billion payout, to separate its media content and distribution businesses.

Reuters - The Dow Jones industrials fell on Wednesday as record crude oil prices fueled concerns about inflation and cutbacks in non-essential consumer spending, which could hurt corporate profits.

Reuters - More than 7,600 Bear Stearns Cos' employees, about 55 percent of its staff, are expected to lose their jobs as the troubled investment bank is absorbed into JPMorgan Chase & Co , JPMorgan Chief Executive James Dimon said Tuesday.

Reuters - Oil prices surged more than $3 to a record above $132 a barrel on Wednesday after a U.S. government report showed a surprise drop in crude stockpiles, reinvigorating fears of a worsening supply crunch.

Reuters - American Airlines will cut jobs, retire old planes and start charging passengers to check bags in a move to counter record fuel prices and a weak U.S. economy, the company said on Wednesday.

AFP - British clothes to food retailer Marks and Spencer on Tuesday posted annual profits totalling more than one billion pounds (1.2 billion euros, 1.9 billion dollars) for the first time in a decade.

AP - The rising price of oil isn't just swelling Americans' energy bills — it's also holding back their stock portfolios.

Reuters - The Nasdaq turned negative on Monday, as semiconductors reversed earlier gains.

Reuters - Union members at an American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings plant in southwestern Michigan are likely to approve a contract that would end a three-month strike by granting the supplier deep concessions, the local bargaining chairman said on Monday.

Reuters - Barclays is considering a takeover bid for a rival and could try to buy an investment bank, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday citing sources.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.